How Apple Slows Down Your iPhone Performance, And How You can Fix It Yourself

How Apple Slows Down Your iPhone Performance, And How You Can Fix It Yourself

France’s competition and watchdog DGCCRF has slammed and fined Apple 25 million euros (USD $27m) for deliberately slowing iPhone models’ performance without making it known to their consumers. And as part of the agreement, Apple must display a notice on its French-language website for a month. This also adds on to a hint on its Support pages that it has begun managing the performance of the iPhone X and both iPhone 8 models, in addition to already slowing down the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.

iPhone Slow after Update?

If you are one of the iPhone users who had long suspected that Apple slowed down older iPhones, yes you’re right, the company finally admitted in 2017 that they do slow down some models. However, the reason is not to encourage people to upgrade when a new one was released, as previously believed.

iOs Update Slowed Down My Phone?

Apple claims that this it did so to preserve the power and lifespan of ageing batteries, which may cause iPhones to unexpectedly shut down if overused.

It said the lithium-ion batteries in the devices became less capable of supplying peak current demands, as they aged over time. This could result in an iPhone unexpectedly shutting down to protect its electronic components.

Apple claims it released a software update for the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE which “smoothed out” battery performance. The practice has since been implemented in most of their older products including but not limited to;

Fortunately, owners of the iPhone X and earlier models can turn off the performance management feature if they feel that their devices have become too slow.

How To Turn Off iPhone Performance Management

All they have to do is the following:

Go to Settings
Tap Battery
Tap Battery Health
Scroll down to the Peak Performance Capability subheading and tap Disable
It’s worth noting, however, that once performance management has been disabled, it can’t be manually enabled again.

Instead, it will activate automatically in the event that the phone experiences an unexpected shutdown.

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